What's social capital got to do with it? the ambiguous (and overstated) relationship between social capital and ghetto underemployment

Critical Sociology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-66

  Gowan, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

alienation; economic capital; poverty; race and ethnicity; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650097188     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920510378769     Document Type: Article

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